OUR STORY
Three Decades of
Excellence in Design
In 2007, the polytechnic law was revised into the Polytechnic Act 2007 (Act 745) to provide tertiary education through full time courses in the field of manufacture, commerce, science, technology, applied arts and applied social sciences, and to facilitate studies and research in technical subjects at the tertiary level. This confirmed the Polytechnics as public tertiary institutions in Ghana with academic autonomy. An avenue was therefore created for the introduction of new programmes/courses.
OUR JOURNEY
n 1992, the Polytechnic Law under Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) Law (1992) upgraded polytechnic education in Ghana to tertiary status. This gave rise to the running of Higher National Diploma (HND) in Commercial Arts Programmes in Takoradi Polytechnic. The HND in Commercial Art Programmes underwent many changes until programmes/courses as Options emerged or created out some departments.
OUR VALUE
The Department of Graphic Design Technology was carved out of the former Fine Art Department in 2008. It is one of the six (6) Departments in the Faculty of Applied Arts and Technology. It provides skills and knowledge-based programmes which develop students for employment in technical and artistic industries and which also equips students with the competences to enable them to pursue their own entrepreneurial ambitions.Currently, Prof. Ebenezer Kofi Enninful is the Head of Department.
OUR VISION
The vision of the Department is to churn out world-class manpower to provide excellent art education to support industries and to promote human resource development in Ghana and abroad.
OUR MISSION
To provide tertiary education in the field of graphic design through the application of arts, and, also, to promote teaching and research in the graphic world
In line with its vision to create excellence in graphic arts, the following goals are being pursued:In its bid to contribute to Ghana’s ambition to build her human resource capacity, the Department provides and seeks to, through further research, improve its high standard competency-based technological and pedagogical approaches